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poliphilo In Robert Browning's tremendous poem A Grammarian's Funeral an early renaissance scholar chooses unremitting labour of the least glamorous kind over worldly reward and pleasure because it's worth doing and why grudge the sacrifice of a single, brief human lifespan when "Man has forever"? It's an invigorating doctrine. But one I'd only recommend if I believed it to be true- which I do.
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Date: 2017-04-27 11:55 am (UTC)Nice to see you here- I've just added you back.
LJ left me with very little choice sadly. :o(